How to Play MTS/M2TS video clip on Mac OS X

MPEG Transport Stream, generally known as MTS or M2TS, is usually a standard format for transmission and storage of audio, video, and data, and is included in broadcast systems just like DVB and ATSC. They are primarily connected to AVCHD, which is a format for that recording and playback of hi-def resolution video, jointly established by Sony Corporation and Panasonic Corporation in 2006 to get used in their digital tapeless camcorders.

You could possibly wonder that just what the difference between MTS and M2TS on this planet is . Well, while you're preaching about AVCHD, you cannot find any distinction between them other than the filename. Possibly you have seen that the files on camcorder or files dragged from camcorder to PC are .MTS extension. However, if you work with Pixela or PMB to import/copy those to PC, those files can have extension .M2TS. Exactly, they are identical.

Both the MTS and the M2TS files may be played on Cyber Link Power DVD, Cyber Link Power Director, Sony Picture Motion Browser, Sony Vegas Movie Studio Platinum. And if we don¡¯t make them, actually when you desired to look at the MTS/M2TS video on your own MAC OS, how would you do?

Then Final Cut Pro, shorten as FCP, happens our mind, for it can load MTS/M2TS videos and edit it easily, then exports them to other video formats as the wish, together with export video formats as MTS or M2TS for HD camcorder. You will find only three simple measures to experiment with MTS or M2TS with your FCP.

Step 1: Connect HD camcorder in your Mac, and it appears as a drive on the desktop.

Step 2: Hit Cmd-Shift-8 to open up the Log and Transfer window(FCP 6 or above).

Step 3: The clips in HD camcorder will likely be ready if you are imported to FCP for editing.

Things will be done in seconds. However, there would be something different if some MTS or M2TS videos could hardly be that will work with Final Cut Pro. And today if we want to export our HD Camcorder video to Mac and examine it on other Media Player or device, we may struggle to allow it to be, due to the video format is not held by other video players or equipment.

In such cases, fortunately, we could modify the video formats by specific video converter. It likes a container through which you'll be able to import any video with some other formats and export any video formats based on your requirements. Thus, with this type of video converter, we could import MTS or M2TS format videos and just click Convert to modify the format with other popular formats like converting MTS to iMovie. and the like. Of course, generally, you should use the converter for uncomplicated editing. For additional information, the tutorial How to convert MTS/M2TS to FCP on Mac would have been a good reference.

To conclude, though MTS and M2TS are extremely popular on HD Camcorder, they aren't very easy to reuse and share on Mac or PC. Almost all of time, we should instead make reference to thirdly party application to bridge the space. Maybe someday, each of different video formats might be held up by Media Player and Device, that¡¯s could be great.